Recently, a hot pot restaurant in Huangpu District, Guangzhou City, was notified of an administrative penalty of 10,000 yuan and confiscated 139 yuan earned in 21 days for selling cold dishes beyond the scope of the license.

Some netizens commented that the regulator had blown it out of proportion, made a big deal out of it, and managed it too broadly, while some said the hot pot restaurant had offended people, and others said it was the regulator trying to generate revenue.

"From an emotional point of view, I can only sympathize with him. But from a rules perspective, I think a 10,000-dollar fine is quite right." Zhong Kai said that according to the Code of Practice for Food Safety in Catering Services issued by the State Food and Drug Administration, if a restaurant wants to sell cold dishes, there needs to be a special cold dish room inside the kitchen, and the area of the cold dish room can't be less than 10 percent of the kitchen area. "The biggest risk in the catering sector is collective food poisoning, the biggest problem of poisoning is microbial contamination, the biggest source of contamination is the cold dishes as well as cooked food contaminated by the cold dishes, that's why the requirements for cold dishes are so strict." And Huangpu District, this store declared when it did not declare gazpacho, "indicating that it does not have the conditions to do gazpacho, if it causes large-scale food-borne illnesses, he lost much more than 10,000 dollars."

In fact, due to violations of the production and sale of cold dishes, causing diarrhea, poisoning of diners and other cases are very many, the relevant punishment cases also abound, just that people do not pay attention to it. And, according to the results of the market supervision department's sampling results, cold dishes of food qualified rate is relatively low, part of the sale of cold dishes of the restaurant hygiene situation is worrisome.